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Here's one of mine from 22.9.17 - not Midland Red but Bid Tamworth. 3417 was Midland Red back in 2008.

and here's mine from today in Cannock on the Pye Greens , on loan from Tamworth

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gardnergav/46737904995/in/dateposted-public/

today at Lichfield

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gardnergav/43525027342/in/dateposted-public/

3022 still in cannock yesterday

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gardnergav/42934782242/in/dateposted-public/

is it now on loan or is it still at cannock for remedial work

New timetables with axed evening and Sunday services are dated to commence 1 April, Westy - next Sunday, Easter Day - so there will be no service from Cannock on that day nor indeed on the following day, bank holiday Monday. Today's would appear to be the last Sunday outing for the affected routes.

Also note that according to Arriva's website, services appear to be greatly reduced on Good Friday this year.

RIP Cannock & Stafford Sunday services  , 2740 was on the penultimate 62S off Cannock leaving with "Sorry Not In Service" on the display, the world will be a smaller place on a Sunday for many people now   

3900 being towed through Cannock by CoachAid at approx. 1915hrs this evening

Would be an excellent idea and highly appropriate. Also like cannockanorak's idea of an open day

Have mailed Arriva regarding both & waiting for a response ! Have also posted out letters.

Keep you posted

It's Cannock depot the 40 years refers to, which has been open for 40 years now

also a feature in the the local free paper "Cannock & Rugeley Chronicle" this week with some nice photographs & plug for the café

I know they get a hard time on here (sometimes justified,perhaps sometimes not) but its a nice addition to add some interest locally & cushion the blow of further revisions in February

anybody up for an open day ?   

 

thanks tony

hi all

do u know if 3301 is still on the 9's

didn't track it down Thursday at stourbridge

is it out today before I camp out at colmore row

thanks for any info

I don't think late 68's are off PG's. Think its just random selection of what's in the yard. But could have changed again as not long back it was an MX61 Pulsar every night which had been on the X60 earlier that day.

PG branded pulsar regularly on the 2114 60 Lichfield-Cannock last week much to my relief :-)

central buses,midland classic,natex & arriva cannock all spotted last night

central (dart) / classic (scania /wright solar ) / natex (scania / omnilink) / arriva (citario !!!  :o)

also saw some very spectacular rail welding as darkness fell (viewed from the subway) & some stobart low loaders arriving all adding to the excitement

going out once my socks are dry  :) for a bash & get some photos !!

 

citaro 3004 on the X60 this morning at Cannock,is this a regular occurrence or covering a Cannock duty ? (assuming its still a tamworth bus) nice to see a bit of variety !!!  :D

this is now allocated to Cannock garage (?),are all boards now with Cannock garage as this was probably now a Cannock bus at the time of photographing then ?

does having only one example of a type at a garage cause difficulties with holding spares,fitter familiarisation,driver training etc

thanks

citaro 3004 on the X60 this morning at Cannock,is this a regular occurrence or covering a Cannock duty ? (assuming its still a tamworth bus) nice to see a bit of variety !!!  :D

citaro 3004 in Cannock on the X60 this morning,is this a regular occurrence,haven't really been monitoring the route,always seems to be pulsars

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gardnergav/16525739752/

thanks

hi,agree it would make sense to perhaps call it the X65 end to end to reflect the tamworth extension,although as both the 60 & X60 both eventually arrive in Lichfield,the only confusion will be passengers expecting a shorter journey time because of the magical X prefix  :) Lichfield passengers will obviously now be looking for an X60 & not an X65 so could be confusion there,lesser of 2 evils ?

for any hardy souls travelling all the way,the the journey time remains the same end to end for the journeys I've studied but with the advantage of NOT  having to change buses in Lichfield & Cannock has gained another "express" service & direct destination & that must be a positive thing ? (even if the majority of Cannock passengers primarily use the cannock-lichfield portion)

assuming Cannock drivers will be working through to tamworth or will there be a changeover at Lichfield in the very limited time allowed ?

will this mean Cannock needing more drivers / buses & tamworth having drivers / buses released to drive elsewhere assuming the X65 is operated by tamworth now ?

how will the 825  now operate with buses now being pushed through to tamworth on the X60

sorry if all the answers to these questions are obvious as i'm not an expert !!! (just an anorak  ;))

thanks all for any answers to above (any Cannock arriva drivers out there?)

cheers